Culture Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk

We're the culture that cried wolf.

— Chuck Palahniuk

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment…

— Chuck Palahniuk

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some…

— Chuck Palahniuk

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I've always been very curious about fringe cultures where people temporarily adopt a different social model or way of presenting themselves.

— Chuck Palahniuk

People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I am a writer and the greatest compliment I can get is to know that I've contributed language to the culture, that…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity. Only the miserable, the failures, the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. Low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give…

— Chuck Palahniuk

People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didnt see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had…

— Chuck Palahniuk

It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they…

— Chuck Palahniuk

As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these…

— Chuck Palahniuk